Farming is a critical sector in Kenya, contributing significantly to the country's economy and employing over 60 per cent of the population.

However, farmers face numerous challenges, including poor access to information, limited resources, and unpredictable weather patterns that affect their productivity resulting in low yields and reduced incomes.

One Kenyan startup is now intervening to help farmers to address these challenges through the use of a farming software tool.

The startup, known as The Wissensof Company, has developed a platform called SupaFarm that allows farmers in Kenya to keep track of their farming activities and monitor their farm's performance.

Supafarm, a cloud-based platform, provides farmers with real-time insights into their farm operations, allowing them to monitor crop growth, expenditures, earnings as well as overall farm performance helping the farmers move from conventional farming into precision farming.

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The SupaFarm software tool is designed to be user-friendly with an intuitive interface that makes it easy for farmers to use.

Farmers can access the platform using their mobile phones or a computer in both online and offline modes, making it accessible to farmers in remote areas with limited access to technology.

The software tool is also customizable, allowing farmers to tailor suit it to their specific needs and preferences with one of the key features of SupaFarm being the Digital Support System.

Through this feature, farmers across the country are able to raise specific issues that they are experiencing on their farms in real time to qualified agronomists for necessary assistance.

This assists the farmers to make informed choices on how to go about a particular issue that they are experiencing on their farms from a verified source hence minimizing errors.

Another key feature of the SupaFarm software is its ability to monitor a farm's performance remotely.

Through data analytics provided by the software, farm managers and farmers are able to get insights into their production costs and revenue in real-time enhancing transparency and accountability, and also enable the farmers to track their profitability and identify areas for improvement.

The significant software also provides farmers with the ability to share reports with their fellow farmers and/or farming enthusiasts enabling best practices to avoid common mistakes made previous farmers.

The reports generated by the software tool also assists research institutions to identify crops that are doing well in a certain area as well as recurrent pests and diseases for necessary intervention.

Supafarm software seeks to empower farmers through the use of technology to enhance their efficiency and effectiveness in their farming process to reduce wastages and enhance their eventual profitability.


Sylvester Odera, the startup's co-founder, has a background in agriculture and understands the challenges facing farmers in Kenya and feels leveraging tech will eventually improve the lives of farmers.

He noted that by farmers in Kenya adopting modern farming techniques, using information shared through the software tool, they will attract higher yields and better-quality produce.

Startups like Supafarm play a pivotal role in driving innovation and progress in the agricultural sector coming at a time Kenya government has pledged to prioritize the development of the critical sector.